Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon's AI Ethical Priorities to Be Embedded Into its Coming Data and Development Platform
The JAIC’s new director recently offered fresh details on the joint common foundation.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Teams with Howard University to Steer Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence
The work will hone in on military-centered machine learning application development, research into trustworthy AI tech—and could help boost DOD’s talent pipeline.
Emerging Tech
How Two U.S. Military Bases Are Exploring 5G’s Potential
Defense Department-led pursuits of next-generation connectivity will hone in on survivability, security, and innovation.
Digital Government
House Bill Would Create NOAA-Led National Database to Help Coastal Communities Confront Rising Seas
The hope is to ready them up to face future weather threats.
Emerging Tech
VA Moves to Expand Its 5G Experimentation
One of the agency’s senior innovators shed light on what’s to come—and how existing 5G pursuits have paid off in the pandemic.
Digital Government
Lawmakers Want to Know Why a Controversial Immigration Figure Was Appointed to a High-Level NIST Job
The pair asked Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for details about the creation of a deputy undersecretary position and why Congress was not informed.
Emerging Tech
Where America Rates in the Latest Leading Supercomputer Rankings
Major supercomputing players—both old and new—made it onto the latest Top500 list.
Emerging Tech
COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium Shifts Focus to Patient Outcomes
In its second phase, the supercomputing group will prioritize projects that offer to help coronavirus patients in the near future.
Artificial Intelligence
NASA, FAA Make Moves to Offer Some Staff App-Based Personalized, Professional Coaching
The agencies are set to tap into BetterUp’s mobile platform, which uses AI algorithms to match employees with the right coaches for their needs.
Cybersecurity
Transportation IG to Examine Security of Financial Systems Dispersing CARES Act Funds
A new audit will hone in on the security controls of systems being used at the Federal Transportation Department.
Emerging Tech
AFWERX Looks to Buy Thousands of COVID-19-Spotting Wearable Devices
The innovation unit is interested in accessing them in as quick as 60 days.
Artificial Intelligence
VA Turns to Machine Learning to Automate Prescription Workflows
One of the agency’s senior innovation-focused officials also shed light on how additive manufacturing might disrupt modern health care.
Cybersecurity
Justice Department Makes Largest Cryptocurrency Seizure to Date
Bitcoins valued at more than $1 billion were traced back to a hacker who took them from the notorious criminal marketplace, Silk Road.
Artificial Intelligence
Top Tech Companies Begin Pushing Priorities for Biden Administration
Microsoft, IBM and other companies urged the president-elect to consider policies for boosting workforce development, solving the pandemic and addressing biometrics in surveillance.
Emerging Tech
Army Considers Facial Recognition to Monitor Children in Its Care
The branch aims to pilot video surveillance and machine learning algorithms to see how they can help keep an eye on kids’ well-being in its child development centers.
Artificial Intelligence
Air Force Turns to Machine Learning to Fight COVID-19 Disinformation
Just as the technology can be used to help deliberately spread falsities online, it can also be tapped to stop that spread.
Emerging Tech
NASA Planning New Ways to Show the World Its Future Moon Missions
The space agency wants virtual reality and other emerging tech to help share its story of lunar exploration.
Emerging Tech
VA Makes Moves to 3D Print and Produce Medical Devices In-House
A newly unveiled effort will expand collaboration that was sparked by COVID-19.
Emerging Tech
Energy Wants Software Sophisticated Enough to Run on Exascale Supercomputers
The agency is offering up to $32 million for open-source chemical sciences-centered codes.
Emerging Tech